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Delusions of a Time-Traveling Cactus

An exhibition of daily image generation, robotic drawing, participatory software, and AI Am I? works.

Year: 2023
Venue: bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
Exhibition: Solo
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Plungers on a shelf, two framed digital displays and a canvas of red zippers line a white gallery wall. — A Short History of Plungers and Other Things That Go Plunge in the Night, 365, and I — installation at bitforms gallery, New York, 2023. Image courtesy of bitforms gallery.

Presented at bitforms gallery in New York in 2023, Delusions of a Time-Traveling Cactus brought together a robotic plotter, the daily images of 365, Polaroid sets, tapestries, sculpture and interactive software.

Works from AI Am I? appeared with generated wall labels. Speak Art Into Life let visitors describe an imagined artwork, select an image and contribute to a growing composition. The title work paired a living cactus with a mirror and screen.

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Gallery

The exhibition title is printed on a white entrance wall, with framed works visible around the corner. — Delusions of a Time-Traveling Cactus — exhibition entrance, bitforms gallery, 2023

An open blue ladder stands near a canvas of red zippers and three framed rows of Polaroids. — Ascending Transience, I and the Polaroid sets, bitforms gallery, 2023.

Three framed rows of small Polaroids hang beside a dark tapestry showing water and a pagoda. — Polaroid sets and Twilight Wanderers in the Kingdom of Enchantment, bitforms gallery, 2023.

Two dark woven landscapes hang on adjacent white walls: a pagoda and water on the left, castles and a golden orb on the right. — Twilight Wanderers in the Kingdom of Enchantment and Lanterns of the Whispering Woods, bitforms gallery, 2023.

A white pedestal with a microphone and colored controls faces a large projection of a multicolored face. — Speak Art Into Life, bitforms gallery, 2023.

Works and series

Six black plungers with progressively taller wooden handles stand on a white wall shelf.

Series / 37 works

AI Am I?

Artificial intelligence

A visitor stands at a blue microphone podium beside a large framed screen of generated imagery beneath a neon Speak Art Into Life sign at TED 2023.

Speak Art Into Life

Artificial intelligence / Interaction / Generative

Six black plungers with progressively taller wooden handles stand on a white wall shelf.

A Short History of Plungers and Other Things That Go Plunge in the Night

Artificial intelligence

A white-framed screen shows a blue-and-white veined sphere with a laughing face against a dark background.

Series / 2 works

365

Artificial intelligence / Generative

A paint-marked blue stepladder stands open with a hammer suspended from a strap between its sides.

Ascending Transience

Sculpture

A potted cactus in a mirrored cube rests on a flat screen showing repeated, reflected film imagery.

Delusions of a Time-Traveling Cactus

Sculpture / Artificial intelligence

A dark tapestry depicts two castles, a large golden orb, branching trees and pale animals crossing an intricate landscape.

Lanterns of the Whispering Woods

Artificial intelligence

A dark tapestry shows a pagoda above wooded slopes, pale streams and small creatures, with round lights suspended across the sky.

Twilight Wanderers in the Kingdom of Enchantment

Artificial intelligence

Dozens of small instant photographs pinned to a cork board behind a clear cover on a purple wall.

AI Polaroids

Artificial intelligence

Red zippers crisscross a white canvas, with round white tags bearing a red I attached to their pulls.

I

Artificial intelligence

A blue-and-white veined sphere with a broad laughing face fills a white-framed screen against a dark background.

The Watchful Blur

Artificial intelligence / Generative

A black-and-white checkered head with red features stands on a pedestal beside an orange vase and bright patterns within a white-framed screen.

Checkered Thoughts

Artificial intelligence / Generative

Five Polaroids in a long wooden frame show streets and buildings with hands holding smaller framed views inside the scenes.

Liminal Thresholds: Ephemeral Transitions Within Grasp

Artificial intelligence

Five Polaroids in a long wooden frame show hands holding nested rectangular pictures within corridors and patterned interiors.

Escherian Reverberations: Oscillations Between Temporal Planes

Artificial intelligence

Five Polaroids in a long wooden frame show pairs of figures by a beach, beneath tall buildings, and beside pointed patterned forms.

Oscillating Histrionics: Crests & Troughs in Tandem

Artificial intelligence